Quoth Sylvain BERTRAND: > Unfortunately, the C toolkits over there are turning very bad: > GTK+ and the EFL do depend on harfbuzz for their font layout > computation which is an *really* ugly c++ object-oriented > brainfuckage (uglier that the glib SDK dependencies!). I did a C > port of harfbuzz (drop-in replacement), but for basic text layout > (roman style). Then to keep your GUI suckless, you should package > a version of a toolkit to allow trashing harfbuzz, or avoid crazy > SDK deps... This is unfortunately more work.
You've complained about harfbuzz before. I haven't looked at the code, and believe you that it's bad, but good international text layout is important and tricky, so might it not be a better idea to clean up harfbuzz than just nuke it?
